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Here’s a list of Black History Month concerts, art exhibitions, street parades and film screenings taking place throughout South Florida in February.

Broward

Thursday, Feb. 8: The art exhibit “Back to Black: African Diaspora Influences in Art and Culture,” featuring works depicting black cultural experiences by artists of African descent, will open at Nova Southeastern University’s Don Taft University Center (3301 College Ave., Davie; 954-262-5553). A 6:30-8 p.m. opening reception will include live music and an African apparel-inspired fashion show, and the exhibition itself will be unveiled at 8 p.m. inside the nearby Alvin Sherman Library (3100 Ray...

Here are three shows you shouldn’t miss on South Florida theater stages this week.
IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU
In this musical comedy about a chaotic wedding staged by Actors’ Playhouse, the two families are miles apart (one Jewish, the other Catholic) and so...

Jose Herrera feels no shame in admitting his new lemon-pepper-garlic beer will probably stink. He’s counting on it.
StinKey lager, brewed by the Islamorada Beer Company in Islamorada, is punched with lemon wedges, black pepper and garlic cloves, a...

Here's what is happening on South Florida stages this week.
Me and My Girl
In this old-fashioned musical comedy, the young Earl of Hareford has to decide whether to make his aristocratic family happy or marry the love of his life, all the while...

Among the classic sketches to be performed in Palm Beach Gardens Thursday night is "Germans Who Say Nice Things," in which two men shout pleasantries with thick German accents. Example: "You look beautiful in a tube top!"
The original 1996 bit from...

Before 20-year-old Delray Beach twins Rashad and Tashad Gardenhire got a “yes” vote from Simon Cowell for the new season of “The X Factor,” they’d heard a lot of “no.”
The story of how they went from being homeless and sleeping in a car last winter to...

The car's navigation device veered you off the beaten track into the twilight zones of the Everglades or Weston's winding roads.
It directs you to exit off a ramp along construction-jammed Interstate 595 and the ramp is closed.
Or it sees you want to go...